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Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
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Contemporary, spare, comic and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- DoryDarkoon TMDB · Feb 20179/10
When I first saw the trailer of Easy A, I wasn't particularly intrigued. It looked like just another high school teenage comedy. But then I decided to watch it anyway (mostly because I wanted to know what all the fuss was about), and it turned out to be a very pleasant surprise! Coincidentally, I had just seen Emma Stone for the first time two days ago, when I watched Zombieland, and I thought to myself, "Hey this girl seems kind of cool". But that still wasn't an answer as to why right now I can't read a single magazine without seeing her face somewhere. After seeing Easy A, I finally know. This girl is FUN. She has a great talent for comedy of the driest, most sarcastic kind and a perfect sense of timing. And you've got to love that husky voice. Easy A is about a girl, Olive, who's a straight A-student with a flawless reputation, until she tells a little white lie to her best friend about how she supposedly lost her virginity to a guy that doesn't even exist. However, things go awry when this little anecdote spreads like wildfire and all of a sudden she has a reputation of being a hussy. (This plot line demands some suspension of disbelief, because it's obviously very hard to bel
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · Jun 20176/10
Pretty far removed from my wheelhouse, but Emma Stone makes for such a great lead, the banter-y dialogue given to the adult roles (most masterfully spoken by Stanley Tucci) is so hilarious, and the story flows so naturally from A to B to C that you can't stop for long enough to question the flaws while you're watching it, that there was no way I couldn't at least give Easy A a passing grade (no pun intended). _Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._
Read the whole review on TMDB - Andres Gomezon TMDB · Oct 20157/10
Fresh comedy. Sometimes funny, but not too much. The cast is good and I like Emma Stone a lot, but she cannot pass as a high school student any more. It could have been much better if the story would have worked better, in spite of the sometimes brilliant dialogues.
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Cast
- Emma StoneOlive
- Penn BadgleyWoodchuck Todd
- Amanda BynesMarianne
- Dan ByrdBrandon
- Thomas Haden ChurchMr. Griffith
- Patricia ClarksonRosemary
- Cam GigandetMicah
- Lisa KudrowMrs. Griffith
- Malcolm McDowellPrincipal Gibbons
- Aly MichalkaRhiannon
Crew
- Will GluckDirector
- Bert V. RoyalWriter
- Michael GradyDirector of Photography
- Brad SegalOriginal Music Composer
- Susan LittenbergEditor
- Zanne DevineProducer
- Will GluckProducer
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